Critically endangered marsupials now thriving on Yorke Peninsula
New monitoring has revealed the population of brush-tailed bettongs continues to grow in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park - a promising sign for Marna...
19 May 2023
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Endangered bettongs complete 2,000km journey to new home in South Australia
A group of tiny, endangered marsupials has completed an epic 2,000 kilometre journey from Western Australia to a new home on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
29 July 2022
Baby boom for first bettongs on Yorke Peninsula in over 100 years
Brush-tailed bettongs released on Yorke Peninsula last year are doing so well nearly every female caught for a recent health check was carrying pouch young.
2 May 2022
Brush-tailed bettongs back on mainland South Australia after disappearing more than 100 years ago
One of Australia’s rarest marsupials, the brush-tailed bettong, has been reintroduced to mainland South Australia after being locally extinct for more than a...
22 August 2021
Census results show West Australian woylies are ready for big move to South Australia
New research has found healthy woylie numbers in the north-eastern part of the Upper Warren region of Western Australia, paving the way for the critically...
7 April 2021
Great Southern Ark project renamed Marna Banggara
The Great Southern Ark, an innovative land management project on southern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia has been renamed Marna Banggara to honour the...
5 June 2020
Australia launches largest-ever rewilding project
WWF-Australia is today launching an ambitious project to create a safe haven near Adelaide and repopulate the area with native species that have been extinct...
31 January 2019
James Fairfax's Conservation Legacy
WWF-Australia is saddened to hear that James Fairfax has passed away.
12 January 2017